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Michael Crawley

Michael Crawley
Name
Dr Michael Crawley
Title
ESRC Postdoctoral Fellow
Address
5.12 Chrystal Macmillan Building 15a George Square Edinburgh UK
Telephone
+44(0)131 511633
Email
Research Interests
Anthropology of Ethiopia, Youth, Embodiment and the anthropology of the body, Anthropology of Sport
URL
http://www.sps.ed.ac.uk/new/people/san/teaching_and_research_fellows/michael_crawley

I am an ESRC Postdoctoral Research fellow in Social Anthropology. My doctoral research  involved a long-term ethnographic study of long-distance running in Ethiopia, and I am currently writing a book on the subject for Bloomsbury. I am interested in how a culturally-inflected awareness of the energetic quality of human existence can give rise to distinctive modes of relating to oneself and others. Alongside my academic work I have also written on the subject for the Guardian (https://www.theguardian.com/profile/michael-crawley).